frit

v. t. To fritter; -- with away. [ R. ] Ld. Lytton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Fritted; p. pr. & vb. n. Fritting. ] To prepare by heat (the materials for making glass); to fuse partially. Ure. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. fritte, fr. frit fried, p. p. of frire to fry. See Far, v. t. ] 1. (Glass Making) The material of which glass is made, after having been calcined or partly fused in a furnace, but before vitrification. It is a composition of silex and alkali, occasionally with other ingredients. Ure. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Ceramics) The material for glaze of pottery. [ 1913 Webster ]

Frit brick, a lump of calcined glass materials, brought to a pasty condition in a reverberatory furnace, preliminary to the perfect vitrification in the melting pot. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) A small dipterous fly of the genus Oscinis, esp. O. vastator, injurious to grain in Europe, and O. Trifole, injurious to clover in America. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ OE. firth, Icel. fjörðr; akin to Sw. fjärd, Dan. fiord, E. ford. √78. See Ford, n., and cf. Firth, Fiord, Fret a frith, Port a harbor. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. (Geog.) A narrow arm of the sea; an estuary; the opening of a river into the sea; as, the Frith of Forth. Also called firth. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A kind of weir for catching fish. [ Eng. ] Carew. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. frith peace, protection, land inclosed for hunting, park, forest, AS. frið peace; akin to frenoð peace, protection, asylum, G. friede peace, Icel. friðr, and from the root of E. free, friend. See Free, a., and cf. Affray, Defray. ] 1. A forest; a woody place. [ Obs. ] Drayton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A small field taken out of a common, by inclosing it; an inclosure. [ Obs. ] Sir J. Wynne. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ , n. [ AS. friðstōl. See Fred, and Stool. ] A seat in churches near the altar, to which offenders formerly fled for sanctuary. [ Written variously fridstool, freedstool, etc. ] [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Woody. [ Obs. ] Skelton. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. L. fritillus dicebox: cf. F. fritillaire. So named from the checkered markings of the petals. ] (Bot.) A genus of liliaceous plants, of which the crown-imperial (Fritillaria imperialis) is one species, and the Guinea-hen flower (F. Meleagris) another. See Crown-imperial. [ 1913 Webster ]